Our mission

Are you that special person who - weary from trudging the endless superhighways - just longs to camp next to a glorious oasis of the mind? Do you desire to explore new frontiers, splash in shared ideas, fill your belly with the refreshing fruits of inspiration, and bask in the gentle rays of fond reflection?

Well, you can fuck right off. This, my friends, is not that place. This place is... The ShadowLands.

In fact, that great arbiter of internet stuff, erm, wikipedia, doesn't even mention 2000, but notes that this once in a lifetime phenomenon has also occurred in 1950, 1955, 1974-1976, 1984 and 1989, meaning that anyone born since WWII could have seen it happen at least six times. In fact, Lake Eyre generally fills more often than we get federal Labor governments.

So for whom is the filling of Lake Eyre a once in a lifetime experience? Bindi Irwin perhaps? Sadly, she was born in 1998, meaning that she could have experienced it twice...

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File it with the sea ice that disappears ... then reapppears ... every bloody year! Then there's the Cartaret islands that are being flooded due to global warming and sea level rises ... but for the fact that they are actually sinking, and most of the world has not noticed any rise.Don't forget the hottest day on record ... oh, wait, but for those ones in the nineteenth century. And the inexorable rises (from the 70s until about nine years ago anyway) in temperature around busy, paved city locations, but not matched by satellite data for the earth as a whole, despite increasing CO2 levels. It's tough arguing the AGW thing, but in the end it's dogma, and the propagandists can win that if they are allowed to.